TJ's Fifthteenth Month + News

TJ's fifteenth month has been wonderful. His whiny phase came to a quick halt, and was replaced with fantastic sleeping patterns, a happier toddler, and a happier mom. He seems to be learning new things at record speed and appears to understand everything I say to him. My favorite thing about this month is his newly acquired skill of hugging! It is the best. I ask for about 50 a day, and sometimes he sneaks in a few without being asked :) We just had a doctor's appointment today and they say our chubby little boy is thinning out- 75th percentile for height and 53 percentile for weight.

Trent had a one week summer break in August so we took full advantage and vacationed in Destin.

[TJ loves the beach, but he might love the showering-off-after-the-beach even more.]

[We shared a Little Caesar's Pizza at Desin Commons while TJ played.]

[We all took turns burying each other at Miramar Beach.]

[TJ thought being buried was pretty fun.]

[Priceline hooked us up with a fabulous deal at the Courtyard Marriott in Sandestin. TJ's need for a fridge hooked us up with a two bedroom king suite upgrade for free.]

[We rode over to Pensacola beach to see Trent's friend from Utah, Christian, who is in Air Force training.]

[TJ slept like a champ the whole week. Eleven or Twelve hours at night and a nice two hour nap everyday at the beach, thanks to the bottle. After that week was over we took away the bottle cold turkey- but it hasn't seemed to disrupt his good sleeping patterns.]

[We spent several evenings at the Destin Outlet Mall scooping up end-of-summer deals. TJ loved the playground there, too]

[Trent was probably seeing if TJ could do a pull up]

[There were lots of fun families to play with at the beach. This little girl came up while I was trying to get a picture of TJ. She sat down next to him and said she likes to get her picture taken too!]

[There was yet another playground just down the road from our hotel at the Baytowne Warf. TJ was loving this big red swing.]

[At the top of a small slide in the toddler section of the park.]

Trent: Should I go down the slide with him? Or will he be okay to go down by himself?

Amelia: Trent, he's been down a million slides before, he will be fine.

[Or not.]

[More swinging with Daddy.]

[We spent our last day at Panama City Beach by the Pier.]

[By the end of the week he was posing for the camera!]

[And that concludes our trip to the beach.]

[We spent the next day at my parent's house before heading home. We love playing in their pool.]
[Every time I am in Tallahassee my mom will spend several hours every day playing with the grandkids out in the pool. After a while, I'll go inside and take a nap and when I wake up she is still out in the pool with the grandkids.]

[Someone remembered his "touchdown!" trick from earlier this year and is super excited about football season!]

[We took that little someone down to the fan festival before UF's first game of the year to walk around and pick up some free stuff.]

[We had gatorzone.com take a family shot of us with TJ wearing a UF helmet. I think it would have been a cute picture, had they not lost our batch and/or never uploaded it to their website for us to view. This was the helmet, but he was over the excitement of wearing it by the time Trent took this picture.]

[Taking a break at Dunkin' Donuts to watch the second quarter of the BYU game]

Lastly, the "News":

[Trent's friend from dental school, Kevin, gave us this little gloworm baby a while back. Recently TJ has been loving it.]

[Maybe he is just trying to get in some practice before his BABY SISTER comes in February!]